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- Nov 07, 2020
Father Quotes
On fathers, faith, and what gets passed down.
This collection includes a personal account of learning Catholic prayer practice during a conversion, and a decision two parents made together about which faith tradition their child would follow. For devotional reading, see Prayers.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a father and an ex-wrestler, it's a dream come true. To be able to come back and be included in 'WWE 2K17,' it's a huge honor.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
She encouraged any artistic impulse I had, and my father discouraged any artistic impulse I had. They took out their problems with each other on me and my sister.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
James Cain was saddled with being called the father of hardboiled fiction. Apparently, he didn't like this saddle.
- Friend
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dan Rooney was my boss, my father, my friend, my mentor.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm glad that's one of the things I chose to do as a man - to be a father to my child.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was an only child and I had a mother and father who were just - there wasn't a straight man in the house, and I mean that in a very nice way. They were fun, and we would laugh a lot.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I flew into a small airport surrounded by cornfields and pastures, ready to carry out the two commands my father had written out for me the night before I left Calcutta: Spend two years studying creative writing at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, then come back home and marry the bridegroom he selected for me from our caste and class.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very moved by chaos theory, and that sense of energy. That quantum physics. We don't really, in Hindu tradition, have a father figure of a God. It's about cosmic energy, a little spark of which is inside every individual as the soul.
- Depression
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't feel the depression the people who are always looking back to the '50s, to 'Father Knows Best' feel. I can see the coming of another glorious era.
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a kid, I grew up middle class, but my father was a great innovator with an entrepreneurial spirit, and it wasn't long before my family became part of the infamous 1%.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned hard lessons in life; I had to because I had so much happen: My mother died my sophomore year in high school. The next year, same day, my brother dropped dead. Two years after that, I got married because my girlfriend got pregnant. The year after my wedding, my father - who I had only recently met - died.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother's father taught English literature. When I was about ten or eleven, I could recite Macaulay's 'Lays of Ancient Rome.' While other kids were playing pedestrian war games, I'd be Horatius keeping the bridge.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a child, I saw my father diving to the deepest point in the ocean with the U.S. Navy.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020